For any who may be reading this series for the first time: this is a thought experiment where I try to see what would happen if the size of the House of Representatives were doubled to 870 members from 435. This series is both highly theoretical and very unlikely to ever occur.
First, a haiku.
Andrew Cuomo
You wanted Republicans?
You got 'em, asshole
Exhibit A in "Why Andrew Cuomo Should Never be a Democratic Nominee for President" will be the redistricting fuckover he gave us. Originally threatening to veto any congressional and legislative maps that weren't drawn by an independent redistricting panel, he instead allowed a horrendous Republican gerrymander of the State Senate, including a brand-new 63rd seat, and once the legislature had that, they didn't give a shit about congressional redistricting, they let a court-appointed "special master" draw it. Cuomo apparently doesn't mind working with a Republican branch of the legislature.
The congressional map we got isn't all that bad, it eliminates two seats: Bob Turner's (R) seat in NYC and an open Dem seat, in favor of a compact, CoI map. That resulted in us likely to lose Rep. Kathy Hochul, but two Republican incumbents (Hayworth and Gibson) were also weakened. But Dems should still be outraged at these shenanigans.
Anyway, I wanted to draw a Dem-friendly map, but Doubled.
Link to the adopted plan.
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